He was staring at a painting on the wall, something abstract and meaningless. He hated abstract art. He hated everything about this room, this building, this situation. The receptionist had been impossibly cheerful, offering him a bottle of water. He'd almost thrown it.

He imagined the look on *his* face, when he walked in. It was a fantasy he'd been replaying for days.

The door opened. Daniel, now Dr. Evans, strolled in, radiating the same unsettling air of control.

"Well, Mr…?"

"Smith," he snapped, his voice rough.

"Please, have a seat, Mr. Smith," Dr. Evans said, the words smooth and dismissive.

He didn't move. He felt the heat rising in his face, a burning sensation that consumed him.

Emotion: enraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -2.14 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.33

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.555
est0.370
aggravated0.362
0.359
🤬0.345
Suppressed:
a-0.468
de-0.358
la-0.312
latter-0.287
☺️-0.285